Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (120 mails)

[Bjorn Tore Sund <bjornts@xxxxxxxxx>]

Damien,

Had you quoted properly, responding would have been easier.

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 damien.selles@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > My approach to this is rather simpler, and I'll implement it sometime Real
> > Soon Now(tm).  I've got the hard drive before the NIC in the boot order in
> > BIOS.  On a new PC, there's no bootable MBR so the machine skips the hard
> > drive and boots from the NIC.  When you want to reinstall a machine all
> > you have to do is make the hard drive unbootable: 'dd if=/dev/zero
> > of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1' before a reboot should do the trick - this bit
> > I haven't tested yet...
> 
> And what if your boot disk crashes.. ?
> or even our MBR crashes...
> 
> your system will re install automatically.. without warning... (and maybe
> making you loose some data.)?

I wouldn't contemplate doing it on my servers.  But on clients?  There
aren't any data there, by definition, and a reinstall is the easy and
quick solution to the problem anyway unless there's a hardware failure
and then it doesn't matter.  It all depends on your setup, of course.

> Don't you think Fabian's process allow you a better control over "re-
> installation"?

It does.  My solution exists right now, Fabian's might exist in the 
future.

Bjørn
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